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They are notorious for wanting their engineers to spit out memorized solutions of leetcode hards

I have interviewed with them more than a single time, and this is simply not true.

Facebook is notorious for using leetcode problems verbatim. Your singular experience does not invalidate that fact.

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I have interviewed with them more than a single time, and this is simply not true.

This thread leaves me wondering if, perhaps, interviewing differs within the organization. Lots of confident "nuh-uh"s on both sides.

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Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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They should only keep the engineers that remember how to solve leetcode hard problems /s

Have you ever interviewed with Facebook/Meta? They don't do leetcode problems. Say what you want about them as a company, but I've done quite a few interviews in my career and their process was one of my favorites.

Good to hear that it's changed if they're not. When I interviewed with Facebook, they asked a leetcode problem, had me come back into the office for a second one because I got strong feedback from all the other sessions, then rejected me with a suggestion that I should come back in 6 months when I'm better at tree traversals.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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Of all FAANGs I expect FB to be the first to sink. I see the writing on the wall..

Why?

Their main product sucks and their Boomer user base is literally dying. The acquisitions are keeping them in the game, but Insta has intense competition from TikTok and Snap and YouTube. They don’t have an unsinkable critical product that everyone uses and will continue to use through good and bad times, like search or mail.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

#46

They should only keep the engineers that remember how to solve leetcode hard problems /s

Have you ever interviewed with Facebook/Meta? They don't do leetcode problems. Say what you want about them as a company, but I've done quite a few interviews in my career and their process was one of my favorites.

This is so false. They absolutely do leetcode problems

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

#47

They should only keep the engineers that remember how to solve leetcode hard problems /s

Have you ever interviewed with Facebook/Meta? They don't do leetcode problems. Say what you want about them as a company, but I've done quite a few interviews in my career and their process was one of my favorites.

Um, when I interviewed, there were two leetcode problems administered by junior engineers to me. A recruiter contacted me recently about a role and I asked if they still ask leetcode questions... got crickets in response.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

#48

They should only keep the engineers that remember how to solve leetcode hard problems /s

Have you ever interviewed with Facebook/Meta? They don't do leetcode problems. Say what you want about them as a company, but I've done quite a few interviews in my career and their process was one of my favorites.

I had a radically different experience. The worst interview I've ever had was with FB about 9 years ago. I got an offer and it was significantly (like more than 2x) what I was being paid at the time and I turned it down because the interview experience was so awful I couldn't imagine working with the people who had conducted my interview. Even setting aside other ethical concerns, I've added FB to my permanent blacklist of companies I will never work for sheerly because of how shit their interview process is.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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Apple is down like 6% today on reports of soft iPhone sales. In an economy where people are actually belt tightening luxury hardware sales are not exactly recession proof

They also have a cash mountain and I'd like to own a company that makes 94% of last years iphone sales. Over 200bn the last time I saw a figure (90bn in cash, the rest invested). https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-compa...

I’m not an Apple bear, I’m saying that it’s a bit naive to say that any company will not be negatively affected by a recession that can result in downsizing or layoffs.
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